Battlefield 3 - incidental glitches
2Alright, these last Battlefield 3 clips I'm uploading are the first I ever captured of it: basically some random glitches, results of light glitching attempts and observations from my first playthrough.
0:00 - backtracking at the start of Operation: Swordbreaker, some NPCs have lost their collision and you can walk in them.
0:16 - floating cardboard box parts.
0:35 - in this corridor the graphics and collision do not match, so you can walk inside the wall and peer outside to see everything flicker like mad there.
1:06 - a pointless trigger skip. At the end of the rooftop parts in Operation: Swordbreaker, jumping down in a certain way lets you skip a minor trigger that would make your team come together and head for the next objective. You just get stuck when doing this because the doors to the next area are not open until your teammates open them.
1:53 - slightly funny ragdoll glitch.
2:15 - I think this is at the 2nd part of Operation Guillotine, but I'm not 100% sure. There is a clear ambush waiting for the main characters on the highway. Instead of walking into the ambush, you can jump over the railing to the left. Basically jam Blackburn into the tight space between a lamp post and the railing and he can vault over the railing from there.
From here you can run ahead to inside the building, despite the arbitrarily placed mission failure zone. But inside, Blackburn has to come to terms with his inability to open up doors without his teammates around. The door blocking his path is quite a critical obstacle, and so far I don't have a way to get around it, so this potential skip is just a dead end.
3:42 - vaulting on top of the railing nearby, you can from there vault on top of the big box to the side of the door. For some reason while in here, you can keep repeatedly vaulting up by smashing the vault button, so maybe there is some vaultable collision near roof level. But since you can't breach roofs in this game, this is all in vain.
4:02 - also, if you came in here early, the light is glitched. Shooting it will break the lamp but it still emits light. Wonder how that works.
4:18 - in Comrades, watching out through the office windows will yield you this mostly unloaded OoB scenery. Stay classy, Battlefield 3.
4:30 - a glitched dead enemy, who stands idly by until vanishing in thin air.
4:39 - this one is a classic. Basically there is a stealth section in this game where if you crouch you are killed for no reason. Think about it. By doing what intuitively seems like the stealthiest thing to do, you get a game over. This is the game straight-out telling the player "do well, but not perfect".
4:58 - a game crash, because it's just not a modern triple-A game without one. (For the record, I got three crashes total while playing through this game.)
5:13 - strange audio design quirk? If you have shot these steam pipes, you hear an almost melodic tone while walking in front of one so that it hits your gas mask. Moving rapidly in front of many bullet holes creates an eerily musical chime to play.
5:37 - certain kind of tight spaces can kill the player character, as can be seen in this clip where I vaulted around in a small bathroom with fatal results.
5:56 - while testing some things in going OoB in Uprising, I managed to glitch the mission failure zone effect by moving in and out of one too rapidly. Basically the obfuscating screen filter disappeared, but this didn't stop the mission failure from occurring once time ran out.
6:19 - If you choose to Restart Level and then manage to open Pause-menu during the fade-out, rarely the pre-mission cutscene will have an extremely low lighting.
6:58 - after all this the game was so screwed up that it even lost its own manual. When I tried to open the digital manual, there was nothing there.
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